The Labor enquirer., 1887-09-10
fke Labor Party ReveiIIe Is
Sounded for the Coming
Fall Campaign.
wednesday Nights Enthusiastic Heet-
ing Of the Workers at the
- Hall Of Science.
As the Republican says:

uCdOQudIteIS WHICH Sudu ludu j.
D. Macdonald called the meeting
to order. Among the audience
were lawyers and business men
beside the regular members of the
club, and the walls of the old Ger
man Methodist church echoed
with labor doctrines"
When theireport of committees
was called for, Mr.. Haskell who
had been appointed a committee
of one with power to PROFOUND
questions "if he saw fit" to Mr.
St. John under the following reso-
lutions, reported that he did not
"see fit"
He analysed the resolutions:
Whereas, The Union Labor
Party Club of the city of Denver
has done its utmost to bring about
a Joint discussion between a rep
resentative of our club and Hon.
John P. St. John, the great apostle
of Prohibition, when that gentle
man shall arrive in our city on the
tenth of September; and
Whereas, The members of this
club are anxious to have the rela-
tive merits of our position as to
the unequal distribution of wealth
among the producing classes and
that of the question of prohibiting
by law of the manufacture and
sale of Intoxicating. liquors con-
sidered in joint debate in order to
ascertain where the truth lies;
and
Whereas, The reasons of the
Prohibition club for declining to
make any effort to bring about any
such joint discussion are unsatis-
factory and lead us to believe that
the leaders of the Prohibition Par
ty of Arapahoe county feel in
their hearts that the former ques-
ton as to the unequal distribution
of wealth is of greater importance
to our national welfare than the
!. one of Prohibition; still, neverthe-
less, craving light and desirous of
pettinp at the bottom facts, there
fore be it
Resolved, That B. G. Haskell
be and he is hereby appointed as
a committee of one, on behalf of
our organization, to prepare and
PROFOUND questions on Prohibi-
ton to Mr.. St. John at or before
the time of his arrival here pre-
senting the points of difference
between our two parties, and that
the secretary present a request to
Chairman Dillon of the Prohibi-
ton club, that Mr.. Haskell may
have the floor at the St. John
meeting a sufficient length of
time to read the same.
Resolved, That if such request
be denied that Mr.. Haskell is to
be the sole Judge as to how these
questions shall be put to the hon.
orable gentleman on his arrival in
our midst.
He reported that the Prohibi-
ton Party had tabled them and
had followed the tabling with a
vigorous attack upon the Labor
Party evidently designed to head
off any proposed questions to St.
John. They also had attacked
Mr.. Haskell and impugned his
motives. The speaker said he did
not "see fit" to PROFOUND the
questions for the reason that it
was giving too much Importance
to a side-issue like the prohibition
question, because their action had
already settled the fact that they
feared to debate prohibition as a
panacea, and because we had
other more important work to do.
He moved the committee of one
be discharged,
Mr.. Millett and others wanted
the questions prepared and put,
but on vote it was decided to
pursue the matter no further. In
the course of the debate Miss
Mccarthy told the Prohibitionists
present some plain truth in most
eloquent and earnest style. Louis
Culmnsee and E. 0. Cochrane hit
them also in pertinent ways. Mr..
Dillon was given the floor and in
a bright speech smoothed matters
nicely and there was a mental
love-feast for few minutes. Argo
Park celebration and the great
show of prominent politicians
there made, was criticised briefly